Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-11
LABOR TROUBLE.
Assembly 40 Breaks Out
Afresh.
A BLOW AT BITTER BEEF
Over Ten Thousand Employees o.
Breweries Ordered to go
Out on a Strike.
,specio, to the Herald ov the Associated ~,

Especial TO the Herald 6v the Ass0ctdfed fress
New YORK. February l0.-The Euen.
ing Ne,os' extra says: District Assembly
40 put ON an additional coat of war paint
at lis conference early this morning and
ordered out everybody in the beer, ale
and porter breweries in this city, Yon.
kers, Jersey City, Brooklyn. Staten
Island and Paterson, as well as mem.
bsrs of the eccentric association of sta.
tionary engineers employed in the diff.
ferent factories within its jurisdiction.
The order is to go into effect to morrow
aud it is estimated that the number OF
men who will stop work in the
breweries alone will amount to H..
900. The number of those who will
be thrown out by the strike of engineers
will run far into the thousands. No
exact general estimate can be formed al
present, but it is csrtain that if they
do quit majority of the big factories
will have to close down. Forty nine
claims that on the strength of assur.
ances that arrangements were being
made for arbitration of the coal trou bles,
it rested on its oars and lost some
ground. Now it intends to re-
gain that ground and get some
more members. The 40 Ex.
ecutive board say they have positive
information that some of the coal com
panies are pressed for loans on National
banks and believe with the arrangements
they are making in connection with the
stopping of work of the employees of The
breweries and engineers, the demand
for coal will grow SO limited that the
coal companies will be glad to Come to
terms. The ostensible reasons for these
manufactures are using "scab" coal. To
q reporter high official of 40 said this
afternoon: "You can say that all Of the
stories that the strike was on the point
Of disrupting and coming to an end have
been made through misunderstanding
manufactured out of whole cloth. Dis.
tr;ct 40 had simply ceased from pushing
matters under an idea that the coal
companies were about to have all dif-
ferences settled by arbitration. We
have been undecided on that point and
now we intend to renew the battle with
vengeance, nor will ths extension of the
strike stop with the measures to be car.
ried out tomorrow. II necessary we
shall call out our men in other lines.
District 40 is now determined to
fght the battle to the bitter
end and instead of meeting defeat we
are more than ever confident of achiev-
ing success lie added that the settlement
with the Reading road had not yet been
sanctioned by forty-nine, and il
was doubtless made with the under.
standing that Corbin was to get other
companies 10 come to the same terms.
lie said it remained to be seen whether
Corbin was acting in good faith. and
added that if he were not, the Reading
men will stop work when called
The news flew along the piers and
wharves. The strikers visible we're un-
usually numerous and much more cheer.
full than they had been for some days.
Jas. L. Quinn, Master Workman of
District Assembly 40, and Victor Drury,
went to Boston last night. They are to
confer with District Assembly 80. of
Massachusetts, in relation to the strike.
The Knights in Massachusetts may be
called out wherever scab coal is used.